Artist.......: Slugabed
Album........: Time Team (ZENCD181)
Label........: Ninja Tune
Genre........: Electronic
Catnr........: ZENCD181
Source.......: CD (LP)
Rip.date.....: 2012-06-04
Str.date.....: 2012-05-07
Quality......: 251kbps/44.1kHz/Joint Stereo
Url..........: http://www.slugabed.net
track title time
1. New Worlds 3:25
2. Sex 3:53
3. All This Time 2:59
4. Moonbeam Rider 3:43
5. Travel Sweets 4:03
6. Unicorn Suplex 3:12
7. Dragon Drums 3:54
8. Mountains Come Out of the Sky 5:11
9. Grandma Paints Nice 4:17
10. Climbing a Tree 4:55
11. Earth Claps 4:13
12. It's When the Future Falls Plop On Your Head 2:34
Runtime 46:19
Size 83.54
Release Notes:
"Hexagonal crystals have a unique directionality," says Slugabed, "which must be
aligned and oriented with Earth's spin axis for every crystal in the inner
core." This idea led him to try a computational experiment. If all the crystals
must point in the same direction, why not one big crystal?
Could an iron ball 1,500 miles across be a single crystal? Unheard of until now,
the idea has prompted realisation that the temperature-pressure extremes of the
inner core offer ideal conditions for crystal growth. Slugabed's high-pressure
laboratories have conducted numerous experiments to test these theories.
The article "Time Team" is a concise documentation of these experiments.
Greg Feldwick is 23 years old and from Bath. He makes noises as Slugabed. His
first releases were on Stuff, Ramp and then Planet Mu but now he is signed to
the mothership, Ninja Tune. His music is suffused with a unique mix of humour,
next level production, dancefloor smarts and melancholic emotion. ôTime Teamö is
his debut album and we think itÆs a belter. The album opens with ôNew Worlds", a
heroic trudge across a vast space landscape, followed by the single ôSexö, a
place of wildly suggestive synth squelch. He then takes us deeper, delving into
the disembodied anime of ôAll This Timeö and on to ôMoonbeam Riderö which
combines digital lyncanthropy with a kind of deep funk groove that ought to come
with a warning label. Along with the nervous squeals of "Travel Sweets" and the
widescreen spangling of ôUnicorn Suplexö this is a record that evokes a very
particular, very peculiar, but never less than beautiful worldview. An album
highlight is ôMountains Come of The Skyö, which has a wonderful rolling rhythm
and uplifting vocal, whilst the synth melody goes stratospheric at the
mid-point. ôGrandma Paints Nice,ö distills yet more warmth and emotion from
supposedly synthetic sounds, and ôClimbing A Treeö sounds like the slow and
wonderful death of a computer clinging on to its last, implanted false memory.
Crowning the album, electro jam "Earth Claps" takes you on a field trip to the
very core of the earth, melts you down and spits you out of a volcano. Lastly,
the mood of dislocated melancholy is pushed almost to a nervous breakdown on the
closing track ôItÆs When The Future Falls Plop On Your Headö.
Asked to explain ôTime Team,ö Feldwick responds that ôit's to do with deep
feelings about mostly inexpressible things.ö It is indeed an album full of
feeling and warmth and humor, a remarkable feat for a record composed mainly on
synthesisers and drum machines. You will be hearing a lot more of Slugabed.
Something witty about crystals or whatever nonsense we were banging on about
earlier.